BILLERICA, Mass., Dec. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Peritus Software Services, Inc.
(Nasdaq: PTUS), a leading supplier of Year 2000 services and technologies,
today announced the availability of Automate:2000(R) Renovation Services for
RPG, PL/I and COBOL environments.  The Automate:2000 service employs the
AutoEnhancer/2000(TM) family of products and addresses the corrective phase of
a Year 2000 project, providing high-quality, automation-assisted renovations
to clients and service providers.
    The Automate:2000 Renovation Services for RPG, PL/I and COBOL are now
available directly from Peritus for those clients and service partners who
choose to outsource code renovations.  "Peritus offers both software
maintenance outsourcing services and industry-leading Year 2000 products,"
stated Bill Sawyer, Vice President of Client Operations.  "It is only natural
that we should respond to the unprecedented market demand for our products and
services by offering clients the best of both worlds.  We are pleased to
announce the availability of Year 2000 Renovation Services, and will continue
to set the standard for other Year 2000 vendors in meeting the demands of
clients in various environments."
    "The Automate:2000 Renovation Services enable us to provide best-fit
solutions to clients in various environments with one of the highest quality
renovation services available," said Ted Swoyer, Director of Marketing at
Peritus.  "Companies who have, or who wish to establish a value-added services
relationship with a qualified service provider will continue to obtain
Year 2000 Renovation Services utilizing the Peritus technologies via our many
licensed service providers."
    "Making these services available to clients and to Service Providers
enables Peritus to meet the Year 2000 renovation needs of clients in more
environments than ever before," stated Gerald Hogan, Director of Product
Management.  "Our Renovation Consulting Services organization is staffed by
consultants with renovation experience and tool expertise, and is committed to
being the best in the business."
    Renovation services for COBOL support both a logic correction and date
expansion solution, and address applications written for the IBM MVS
environment in COBOL, COBOL II and OSVS COBOL.  Renovation services for RPG
support a logic correction solution and address IBM environments with RPG II,
RPG III and RPG 400, with both CL and OCL.  Renovation services for PL/I
include automation-assisted logic correction and address the MVS PL/I
environment.

    Renovation Strategies
    Data expansion and logic correction are two critical strategies for
renovating applications, providing Year 2000 compliance.  In data expansion,
programs are modified to handle 4-digit years and data is converted to contain
4-digit year values.  In logic correction (windowing), the logic of the
programs is enhanced to infer the correct century from the existing 2-digit
year data.  A hybrid approach is also possible in which data expansion and
logic correction are both used.  The AutoEnhancer/2000 technology can support
one or more of these correction strategies, depending on the language in use.

    About Peritus
    A leading provider of Year 2000 solutions, Peritus provides software
products and services that enable organizations to improve the effectiveness
of evolving information technology systems.  The company combines
state-of-the-art concepts and scientific principles from multiple disciplines
including organizational dynamics, workflow management, and formal
mathematical techniques into a dynamic, leading-edge approach to software
evolution.  With the recent acquisition of Millennium Dynamics, Inc. and the
addition of the Vantage YR2000 product suite, Peritus now provides the most
comprehensive renovation solutions with the most flexible choice of packages
and pricing.  Together, the AutoEnhancer/2000 and Vantage YR2000 products are
in use by more clients than any other renovation tools.
    Peritus offers direct licenses of the AutoEnhancer/2000 and Vantage YR2000
products to clients who perform their renovations in-house.  Peritus also has
over 40 agreements with value-added Service Providers who are licensed to use
the AutoEnhancer/2000 and Vantage YR2000 products to perform renovations in
conjunction with their own value-added products and services for the
Year 2000.  For more information, please visit the Peritus Web site,
http://www.peritus.com , or call 1-800-598-7787.
    Peritus is a registered trademark, Automate:2000 is a registered
servicemark.  AutoEnhancer/2000 and Vantage YR2000 are trademarks of Peritus
Software Services, Inc.

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